The Vinyl Countdown # 332

Icehouse, Crazy [Single] (1987)I have a story about the album Man of Colours which I have already shared – and if you can’t be bothered clicking on that link it’s, simply, that I heard the album blaring down the street on the very last day of primary school. My mum would buy a new album every week and blast it and I vividly recall hearing Man of Colours as I walked up the street. Side two was on as I jumped in the pool. The end of primary school. The start of summer. So vivid. And that was, really, my introduction to Icehouse. It would turn out, when I worked back, that I had heard some of the key songs from the earlier albums and I now love those albums too – but this was the thing. This song maybe in particular (since it was side one, track one) and that album. And I still love it. And Icehouse. Just recently I bought this, and now I think I have to collect up all the Man of Colourssingles. Well, we’ll see…

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